Silly Questions (that may never be answered)

[mongo62aa]

No: HPFGUIDX 74870

bboy_mn wrote:

THE DEATH EATER CAPTURE REWARDS-
This issue is really getting to me, I swear I become more 
pschotically obssessed with it everyday. I will simply be furious if 
the Ministry does not make good on it's offer of G1,000 per death 
eater (G=symbol for Galleons, should actually look like the General 
Mills 'G' logo), and they should still get the G1,000 for the 
capture of the DE's like Malfoy who were not escaped prisoners. A 
captured DE is a captured DE; escaped or not.

If the money is offerred to Harry, I suspect he will insist that 
everyone who was involved (other students and Order members) get an 
equal share of the reward. Although I think certain members like 
Moody will decline. 

The implication is that there were about 10 DE's present, most but 
not all of them were caught, and some of them were not Azkaban 
escaped DE's. I don't think Moody or Kingsley will accept their 
share of the reward. So, let's round it off to 8 bad guys captured 
by 8 good guys; that G1,000 each. Worst case, estimate 6 escaped 
DE's and 10 good guys, that's G600 each.

1,000 galleons is about US$7,500.
600 galleons is about US$4,500.

Either way, that will be like a small fortune to Ron and Lupin, and 
it certainly won't be small potatoes to the other members.

Me (Bill):

There were twelve 'good guys' involved in the MoM fight: six 
students, the five Order members in the rescue mission, and 
Dumbledore.  Of those, the two active Aurers (Tonks and Shacklebolt) 
are probably prohibited from accepting the reward money due to 
conflict-of-interest rules, Black is dead, and I think that 
Dumbledore would refuse to accept any money.  That leaves eight 
people (the six students, Lupin and Moody) dividing up G11,000 (the 
twelve DEs minus Bellatrix) - that's G1,375 each.

At the 'official' exchange rate of five Pounds per Galleon, that's 
6,875 Pounds each, but the purchasing power in the books seems a lot 
higher.  The reward money would be worth well over US$10,000 each - 
a fortune for Lupin, Ron and Ginny.

Bill